Just when the Tang army was dispatching troops, the atmosphere in Linshui and other places also became a little more solemn. Hundreds of thousands of troops began to take action. If you want to make no noise at all, it is impossible.
possible.
Soon, the already vigilant dwarves smelled something bad. In the dwarf embassy in Chang'an, an officer from the intelligence department was the last one to walk into the basement and close the heavy door.
This is an underground meeting room built secretly by the dwarves. Sound insulation was recently installed so that no one can eavesdrop.
The room fell silent the moment the door was closed, and soon a dwarf intelligence officer introduced his latest progress: "I bribed a worker in the cold chain system of Linshui Port, and he took a look at the supply and distribution list for me.
.This person told me with certainty that the amount of meat food sent to the armored instructors is enough to feed 30,000 people for a month."
The Tang army secretly gathered so many people, and naturally they consumed a lot of food. With frequent replenishment, it was of course impossible to keep it completely secret.
The dwarves were calculated mentally but not carelessly, and they only started from a small person. They spent a lot of money to bribe a cold chain worker who had just arrived in Linshui to work, so they got some scraps of information.
But just these scraps are enough to make sensitive intelligence personnel alert: the new armored instructors formed by the Tang Army near Linshui are not as simple as they seem.
"This number is very abnormal, because according to the habits of the Tang Army, it is normal that the newly formed armored instructors should not be a main force. From the name, we have always regarded it as a training force like a school, but now looking at it,
The scale... is even larger than a regular armored division." The head of the Intelligence Department of the Ice Empire frowned and muttered.
The intelligence officer who flew back to Chang'an from Linshui continued to add: "I have investigated the area of the base. Although their security is very tight, I walked around the perimeter of the base and it was obvious that they couldn't control it. Based on the area calculation,
, their station is very abnormal..."
The convenient transportation in the Tang Empire also made their travel easier: it took him a few days to travel between Linshui and Chang'an, but now it only takes a few hours, which is very convenient and fast.
Anyway, there are no restrictions on flying. As long as you can afford a plane ticket, you can fly as many times as you like. Datang Airlines has even launched a discount promotion. As long as you fly more, the air tickets will be cheaper.
He personally walked around the base and found that the area it occupied was staggeringly large. It was not just a training base at all, it was a huge barracks.
On the eastern coast of the Tang Empire, there were several such bases, not only for the Army, but also for the Army Aviation, and the Air Force had even more airports.
Another intelligence officer was responsible for the intelligence collection work on Dongwan Island. He said at this moment: "The same is true for the military base in the direction of Dongwan. Their airport has very frequent takeoffs and landings. This is also not a normal phenomenon.
"
"According to the number of aircraft originally supposed to be equipped at the station, there shouldn't be such frequent takeoffs and landings. This is not a war period, so there is no need to arrange such frequent patrol missions." He has been active in the East Bay, and he has no need to arrange such frequent patrol missions.
We have a rough idea of the number of Tang Army aircraft deployed.
The minimum number of aircraft stationed there was about 40, on weekdays there were about 50 to 80, and the maximum was no more than 100. Now, at least 150 aircraft are deployed there, which is obviously not a normal number.
"That is to say, do you suspect that the Tang Army has increased the number of troops deployed along the coast?" The head of the intelligence chief already had a bad premonition.
Several intelligence officers kept nodding: "Yes, at least twice as much as we estimated. Or even more."
Then one of them continued to speak: "In the past six months, the Tang Army has been secretly increasing its troops in the coastal areas. They did it very carefully. By the time we noticed, these troops had been stationed here for a long time."
"In addition, they have added oil storage facilities, repaired pipelines, and... there are also more supplies in the port." The intelligence personnel investigating in Linshui recounted everything they knew.
The Tang Army is indeed strengthening its material reserves. In order to enable hundreds of thousands of people to fight across the sea, such preparations have to be made, and there is no good way to keep it secret.
Being able to keep it secret until today is already a miracle in the history of intelligence. What Tang Jun has to do next is just to compete with the enemy for time to react.
"I paid a small businessman to bribe him. He complained that the warehouses in Linshui Port were full of military supplies and they couldn't rent any space." Finally, the intelligence officer who flew back from Linshui talked about the relevant supplies.
things.
The intelligence chief of the Ice Empire raised his thick eyebrows and immediately asked: "Is the news true?"
The intelligence officer nodded: "There is no need for the other party to lie. This is not a secret. Our businessman did go to rent the warehouse and verified it. It was indeed impossible to rent it. He said that he imported some grain and the warehouse was full.
"
"Importing grain?" The person in charge stared at the other party in confusion, hoping that the other party would give him an explanation.
The intelligence officer immediately replied: "We have verified with Lines. It is impossible for Dorne to sell grain, and Lines has not sold it. We can't find relevant information here. The grain exported by a country in the Poplar Empire is not at all
It may have made the Linshui Port warehouse so nervous."
Food supplies in various countries around the world are somewhat tight due to population growth, and the amount of food exported is not large. Against this background, investigation is very easy.
What depresses the intelligence department of the Tang Empire is that they can't find any good interface to cover up the fact that materials are piling up in the port: the things imported by the Tang State are indeed not that many.
Ore and oil are basically either digested and smelted on site or transported away. What is stored in the port is nothing more than food and light industrial products such as clothing, hats, shoes, and socks. How can there be so many of these things.
Therefore, the Tang State had no choice but to lie and hope that the opponent would be careless and omit these details. Unfortunately, no one is a fool, and the dwarves quickly noticed this.
After all, these methods were actually taught in the military academy of the Datang Empire. Now the Datang Empire has finally been slapped in the face by the boomerang of "technology diffusion" that it flew out.
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My wife went back to her parents' house, and finally nothing happened. I'll make some adjustments and start making up for it tomorrow.
